· Community foundation
Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation
Cultivating philanthropy to build better communities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $464k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $862k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $3,000,000 |
| MATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC | $261,354 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $117,462 |
| CHARITY GLOBAL INC | $100,000 |
| THE CROSS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ST ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH | $100,000 |
| ARTHUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $99,074 |
| CITY OF NEWTON ILLINOIS | $90,608 |
| BUCKEYE FRIENDS SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $70,000 |
| EFFINGHAM WATER AUTHORITY | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| EFFINGHAM CUSD UNIT 40 | $34,000 |
| FOX RIVER TROLLEY MUSEUM | $31,130 |
| ILLINOIS RAILROAD MUSEUM | $31,130 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $726k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $630k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HPHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2024 · $13M · revenue +14%
- TCTHE CROSS FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2024 · $450k · revenue +51% · 68% of their budget
- FRFOX RIVER TROLLEY ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $207k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2022 · $5.0M
- NANEWTON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INCone grant, 2023 · $490k · revenue -954%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAULone grant, 2021 · $154k · revenue +15%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Eastern illinois foodbank exists to alleviate hunger in eastern illinois by providing a reliable source of food for the hungry through cooperation with a network of food pantries and agencies.
Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
To improve the economic well being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life.
Operating an agricultural fair under the state of illinois bureau of county fairs.
To develop knowledgeable and effective leaders to become policy and decision makers for the agricultural industry.
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success, developing a competent and assertive agricultural leadership, increasing the awareness of…
To make annual distributions for charitable purposes in edgar county, il.
To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm families in Effingham County, IL
To promote philanthropy in an impartial, unbiased, ethical way, with a commitment to inclusiveness, and to bring together people and resources to identify and address present and emerging community needs.
Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.
The Edwards County Farm Bureau was organized to support and preserve the best interests of its agricultural communities, to educate the public and to enhance framing profitability for future generations.
How this is measured
95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 166 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Buckeye Friends School ↗
- Who funds NEWTON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOX RIVER TROLLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EL SHADDAI HOMES ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CONFERENCE OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MID-IL BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Virginia C Koboldt Charitable Trust · United Way of Coles County Inc · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · United Way of Effingham Cnty Inc · Midland States Bank Foundation · The Sparks Foundation Trust Agreement C/O Ray a Sparks · Niebrugge Cares Foundation · Midland Area Agency on Aging · United Way of Knox County Indiana Inc · Eastern Illinois Foodbank · Silas & Ruth Claypool Foundation · The Melvin Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: 24% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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